Rosanna Powers' fiancé and brother died within 30 hours of each other in Iraq in 2004. Now, just over a decade after their deaths, she sees both of them in her 11-year-old son -- a comforting but difficult reality.

The Afghan Parliament has just passed a law that would effectively silence women and girls who are attacked by family members by banning them from testifying against anyone they are related to... no matter how horrible the crime.

Army Lt. Col. Jeff Yarvis looked out at the cemetery where 41-year-old Army Lt. Col. David Cabrera, believed to be the first military social work officer killed in action by enemy fire, would be buried this day.

18 year-old Lal Bibi was kidnapped, raped, tortured and chained to a wall for five days by a gang of powerful Afghan police officers. But she stood up to do what women in Afghanistan are told not to -- she is fighting back, and together we can help her.

Worsening security, rising violence, school attacks, the Afghan government's lack of committment to equality & tackling high rates of ill-treatment of women at home & the workplace, all add to women's growing fears for after the NATO 2014 pull-out

Each day women in Afghanistan are in fear for their lives, and for the lives of their children. These are not women who have committed any atrocious act or heinous crime. They are abused by their families and often times placed into a women's prison

A Chinese company digging an unexploited copper mine in Afghanistan has unearthed ancient statues of Buddha in a sprawling 2,600-year-old Buddhist monastery.Archaeologists are rushing to salvage what they can from a major seventh century B.C. religious...

Zablon Simintov is always guaranteed the best seat in his local synagogue here, but the privilege comes with a downside: he's the last Jew in Afghanistan.The country's 800-year-old Jewish community -- an estimated 40,000 strong at its peak -- is now a pa